Tobacco-booker



No. 622,300. i Patented Apr. 4, |899. J. N. WAM'BDLD.

TOBACCO BUUKEB.

(Application filed Apr. 25, 1898.) (No Modal.)-

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J. N. WAMBULD.

TOBACCO BOKER.

(Application filed Apr.. 25, 1898.)

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IINiTED STATES- PATENT OFFICE. Y

JOHN NICOLAS VAMBOLD,OF vSUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGN OR OF ONE- HALFTO FREDERICK ANTHONY WAMBOLD, OF HIGHLAND, YISCONSIN.

TOBACCO-BOOKER.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,300, dated April 4,1899.

Application filed April 25,1898. Serial No. 678,741. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN NIcoLAs WAM- BOLD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Sun Prairie, in the county of Dane and State ofVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTobacco-Rockers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a device for booking or straighteningtobacco-leaves which are to be used for Wrapping cigars.

I shall rst .describe my invention in connection with the drawingsaccompanying and forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure lis a back elevation of a tobaccobooker made in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of theupper part of one of the arms C, showing how lever D is attached to andworked on said arm. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view showing how arm Cis adjusted for long or short leaves.

A is a convex top of a booking-table, and B its support. Pivoted to B atc are arms C C,which extend upward a short distance above the table, andeach supports near its top end a lever D, having at one end an arm e,which extends across and is held down upon the table by spring s. Theother end f of lever D,

' I connect by rods r to treadles T, which are attached to the lowerpart of support B.- To

, permit leaves of any length to be booked, I

provide for the adjustment of arms C C by slotting the back of the upperpart of the table at g g and passing through said slots and through armsC bolts h, provided with thumbscrews 'a'. By loosening thesethumb-screws the arms C C may be moved closer to or far-A I also preferlto cover the arms e e with a similar material. Y

When using the hooker, the operator sits in front of the machine, withhis feet on the 5o treadles T. The tobacco-leaf being ready, theoperator presses one of the treadles T and lever-arm e is lifted fromthe table against the stress of spring s by rod r, as shown in dottedlines in Fig. 1. The end of the leaf is placed under arm e and pressureon treadle T is released. The leaf is smoothed across l the table andpressure is put upon opposite treadle T, which operates lever-arm e inthe way just described.

My device can be cheaply constructed, is not easy to get out of order,and I have found from practical use that it is thoroughly efcient.

Having described my invention and the best way now known to me forcarrying the l same into effect, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a tobacco-booking table, arms C attached to theback of the ta- 7o ble by bolts h, levers D mounted on said arms, saidlevers having projections c, springs s adapted to hold said projectionsdown upon the leaves, and releasing-rods r attached to treadles T,substantially as andfor the pur- 7 5 JOHN NICOLAS WAMBOLD.

Witnesses:

THos. O. HAYDEN, ELLA HAYDEN.

